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WDSU I-Team just broke more new info on this story - 4:20 PM Wednesday. Maybe other stations who have followed them since yesterday on this story can claim that as their own now as well. And just a TRUE heads up to above "career" bloggers - the feds were issuing those subpoenas long before Mackel and Zurik started looking into this. Letten and the FBI do not take their leads from the TV media as some bloggers want you to believe.

Just to be clear once and for all for all of you Lee Zurik loves out there, Travers Mackel and WDSU broke this story online and on TV Tuesday night and everyone in TV, news and legal circles knows that. No one can dispute that, because - Lee Zurik's story isn't airing until Wednesday night. Travers' story aired Tuesday night. Tuesday night comes before Wednesday night. At least on planet earth, wher most of you must not live. Lee's bloggers should just realize he got scooped and stop trying to argue. Even this site had the story, once again before Zurik. So Martha Carr can say she broke it before Lee. Move on.

FOX-8 and Benson are being used by Zurik. He has no intention to leave WWL. If he was actually going to FOX-8 this article would read "Zurik heading to FOX." He's using them. And lets be honest all of you bloggers out there, if Zurik really does go to FOX you all will not follow and WWL knows that. Remember this, John Snell left WWL in 1994, so did Mike Longman. Last time I looked, WWL was still number one and FOX-8 is still a lower tier station. I wish him the best, but he will never leave WWL and they know it, FOX and Dave Walker just havn't realized it yet.

Would you all PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE stop talking about Pargo like he's Kobe Bryant!!!!!! He's a back up that no one else wanted to sign. He ended up over seas because is a decent back up at best. There's a reason he's kicked around to several different teams and played last year in Russia and Greece. He had a few decent games at the end of the '07-'08 season and was void in the play-offs. In fact the Hornets bench was panned in the play-offs series against Dallas, and San Antoino in '07-'08 and last I looked - Pargo was part of that bench. Please, no more mentioning Pargo as a savior. Collison is a highly ranked PG who can come in and spell Paul. And easy on his size experts - last time I looked CP3 wasn't much bigger.

I heard Clancy DuBos on WWL giving an opinion about Stacy Head’s response to this whole email thing and I am not sure what he meant.

He indicated she needed to apologize more than she did. For what should she apologize? Was the content (other than the rawness and crudeness of language for which she has already apologized) anything that is inconsistent with her public statements?

As I recall, she ardently supported James Carter and then Cao instead of Richmond. And Richmond’s affiliation with Sherman Copeland should be something that she cares about if she is, as she professes to be, against the old political machines.

The rest of her emails that Washington released were also in line with her public positions including that Riley is a problem, Anthony Jones should have been fired, etc. And does he really think that other reformers on the council like Fielkow and Midura didn’t “rant” about the political games of their colleagues and the harm being done by the mayor? Does he really believe that their language was, at all time, measured and staid? Of course they “ranted” because they share Stacy’s passion. But again, Washington chose to carefully and craftily release only those that do maximum damage to Stacy.

And then Clancy stepped into Washington’s carefully choreographed dance and issued an opinion in a vacuum. He may owe Stacy an apology and retraction. If and when he gets all the emails — or even the emails of Arnie and Shelley -- and he finds that Stacy is alone in her use of email in a less than judicious manner, then he can demand a group apology to whomever he wishes. But it is unfair to single her out the way he and Washington have.

I really doubt that Stacy is the only one using strong, hard-hitting language in her emails. Why haven't we seen anything from Arnie or Shelley Midura? Stacy, when you post your emails, let's see some from them too!

Stacy Head will come out on top because she is HONEST and her motive is to HELP the city.